Michel Barrette
Michel Barrette (born April 26, 1957 in Chicoutimi, Quebec) is a television and movie actor, television and radio host and stand-up comedian. He has played various roles in Quebec movies and television shows since 1982.
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) who unexpectedly digs up his dead wife's corpse and runs off with it, forcing his father (
Jean Lapointe
Jean Lapointe, (December 6, 1935 – November 18, 2022) was a Canadian actor, comedian and singer as well as a Senate of Canada, Canadian Senator.
Lapointe began his stage career as part of the duo ''Les Jérolas'' with Jérôme Lemay, perf ...
) and son (
Patrick Hivon
Patrick Hivon (born July 5, 1975) is a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec. He was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for ''Guardian Angel (L'Ange gardien)'', a Gémeaux Award nominee as Best Suppor ...
) to set off in an attempt to find him before he gets arrested or commits suicide.
The film's cast also includes Alexis Martin,
Johanne-Marie Tremblay
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She had her first film role in the 1988 '' Straight for the Heart'', after which she was discovered by director Denys Arcand and cast as the character Constance in ''Jesus of Montreal'' (1 ...
,
Charlotte Laurier
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,
Micheline Bernard
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Côte-Nord
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region of Quebec.
The film premiered on September 10, 2010 at the
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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, before going into commercial release on September 24.
Critical response
Brendan Kelly of the ''
Montreal Gazette
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'' wrote that "Aubert delivers some striking images along the way, including many of the province's seedier roadside motels. But a lot of this doesn't work, most notably the device of continually showing a gang of ghostlike figures that appear to be following Barrette's character around. There's more dysfunction here than you can shake a stick at, but for those of us who've seen more than our fair share of angst-ridden Canadian flicks, there's a sense of deja-vu all over again to this. The best thing here is the three actors. Barrette, best-known for light comic roles, is totally convincing as this heartbroken man, and Hivon is also good as a guy bent on self-destruction. But the standout is Lapointe, who is just wonderful as the grizzled old codger who has no patience with his neurotic son and grandson."Brendan Kelly, "Jean Lapointe slaps life into a dysfunctional family". ''
Montreal Gazette
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'', September 24, 2010.
Awards
Lapointe won the
Jutra Award
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Best Screenplay
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Carina Baccanale Carina Baccanale is a Canadian film editor.
She has been a two-time Genie and Canadian Screen Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing, receiving nods at the 29th Genie Awards in 2009 for ''Le Banquet'' and at the 2nd Canadian Scree ...
).Mélanie Marquis, "«Incendies» rafle tout sur son passage à la 13e soirée des Jutra".
Canadian Press
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, March 13, 2011. Although Aubert did not receive a nomination for
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, winner
Denis Villeneuve
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asserted in his acceptance speech that Aubert should have been the winner.